Analysis

  • A river runs through it

    19 February 2025

    For all the political noise against ESG, asset managers tell Insurance Asset Risk nothing has changed, and their sustainability offerings and strategies are seeing an insatiable demand

  • How can an asset manager provide an insurer with the best custom fit?

    17 February 2025

    James Bradbury, business development manager on Wellington Management's EMEA insurance team, tells David Walker how the manager's bespoke solutions are cut to fit its customers

  • Insurers now taking a more blended approach to public and private investing, Barings says

    12 February 2025

    Insurance Asset Risk sat down with Patrick O'Sullivan, head of international insurance solutions at investment manager Barings to discuss his role and the sector's changing approach to investing in private markets.

  • Real estate market back to basics

    10 February 2025

    Values in the private markets have corrected signaling an encouraging outlook for real estate investors, Andrew Angeli, global head of real estate research and strategy at Zurich, says

  • Are gilts failing to shine for institutional investors?

    05 February 2025

    RLAM comments on the state of play in gilt yields ahead of the BoE's next rate cut decision

  • Will the NAIC's new regulations change insurer's attitudes to private credit investments?

    03 February 2025

    David Zhang, director at New York-based advisory firm MSCI, discusses how US insurers are coping with a torrent of new regulation from the NAIC

  • Secret Actuary - How far from 'midnight' is the 'Insurance Doomsday Clock'?

    29 January 2025

    Actuaries tell us what metrics a Doomsday Clock for insurance would probably need - and how close to Underwriting Armageddon we really are

  • ESG is on trial. Are you ready to convict?

    27 January 2025

    The term ESG has become box office poison in recent months. Is it dead and buried or looking for a new definition?

  • Are the Magnificent Seven the only tech game in town?

    22 January 2025

    AllianzGI's CIO global technology equity, Jeremy Gleeson, discusses the broadening out of tech investments in 2025, why early disappointments are to be expected, and the semiconductor cycle turning point

  • The NAIC is cooking up a hearty bowl of reform, how should US insurers prepare for the meal?

    20 January 2025

    From risk-based capital to GEMS and the Insurer Investment Regulation Framework, 2025 could be a busy year